"The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has shaken things up in the world of comics today, as a long-held trademark by Marvel Comics and DC Comics has now been canceled. The announcement comes courtesy of law firm Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg (RJLF), who have declared victory over DC and Marvel in a trademark case over the word Super Hero (via Bleeding Cool). The request was granted after DC and Marvel failed to respond to court requests over the challenge to the joint trademark, and now that it's been canceled, RJLF's clients S.J. Richold and Superbabies Limited can now use that term without issue."
You aren't the only one, my friend, to have been embarrassed by a long-time mispronunciation.
When I was a youngster, there was an Italian actor just coming into American movies---Cesare Danova.
He was handsome, elegant, and had an innate likeability. That last quality didn't keep him from effectively playing dissolate roués and urbane villains from time to time. His charisma on the screen made him enjoyable to watch. As he moved into the 1960's, he spent more time doing television. He was one of those actors whom, you could take any TV Guide from any week in the '60's, and he'd be somewhere in the credits of a television show. He could do a star-turn very well, as shown in the unfairly maligned made-for-television film Chamber of Horrors (Warner Bros., 1966).
For fifteen years, I had never heard his name, only seen it in the credits, and I mentally pronounced his first name as "See-zair". Then, sometime in the early 1970's, he was one of the celebrities manning the phones at a telethon, probably Jerry Lewis'. I happened to be watching when one of the emcees went to the phone desks and had a chat with him. That's when, for the first time, I had heard his first name spoken: "Chez-ar-ray". I felt like a moron.
To this day, whenever I see his name, I have to mentally correct myself because my first thought is to say "See-zair".
doc photo > Jeff of Earth-JOctober 3, 2024 at 9:47am
I only knew the correct pronunciation due to buying the Chicago V album way back when. The opening track - "A Hit By Varese"
This comet is expected to be visible to the naked eye tonight, starting at sundown. I was previously spotted in Uruguay and the Canary Islands. Even if you aren't in California, look West when the sun goes down tonight.
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From ComicBook.com: "Marvel and DC Just Lost the Super Hero Trademark: Here's What That Means"
"The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has shaken things up in the world of comics today, as a long-held trademark by Marvel Comics and DC Comics has now been canceled. The announcement comes courtesy of law firm Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg (RJLF), who have declared victory over DC and Marvel in a trademark case over the word Super Hero (via Bleeding Cool). The request was granted after DC and Marvel failed to respond to court requests over the challenge to the joint trademark, and now that it's been canceled, RJLF's clients S.J. Richold and Superbabies Limited can now use that term without issue."
I just realized today that I have been mispronouncing Edgard Varèse's surname all my life.
(It's pronounced "VarEZ.")
You aren't the only one, my friend, to have been embarrassed by a long-time mispronunciation.
When I was a youngster, there was an Italian actor just coming into American movies---Cesare Danova.
He was handsome, elegant, and had an innate likeability. That last quality didn't keep him from effectively playing dissolate roués and urbane villains from time to time. His charisma on the screen made him enjoyable to watch. As he moved into the 1960's, he spent more time doing television. He was one of those actors whom, you could take any TV Guide from any week in the '60's, and he'd be somewhere in the credits of a television show. He could do a star-turn very well, as shown in the unfairly maligned made-for-television film Chamber of Horrors (Warner Bros., 1966).
For fifteen years, I had never heard his name, only seen it in the credits, and I mentally pronounced his first name as "See-zair". Then, sometime in the early 1970's, he was one of the celebrities manning the phones at a telethon, probably Jerry Lewis'. I happened to be watching when one of the emcees went to the phone desks and had a chat with him. That's when, for the first time, I had heard his first name spoken: "Chez-ar-ray". I felt like a moron.
To this day, whenever I see his name, I have to mentally correct myself because my first thought is to say "See-zair".
I only knew the correct pronunciation due to buying the Chicago V album way back when. The opening track - "A Hit By Varese"
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'Nuff said!
This comet is expected to be visible to the naked eye tonight, starting at sundown. I was previously spotted in Uruguay and the Canary Islands. Even if you aren't in California, look West when the sun goes down tonight.
Rare comet will be visible to the naked eye Saturday in California ...
If you stick around for another 80,000 years you'll have another chance.
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